Punjab Government on Thursday decided to run a pilot project for the cleaning of ponds by using the windmill technique.
“A Canada-based Nature’s Care Company has given a detailed presentation for cleaning of ponds through a natural process on Thursday…after the presentation, it was decided to install the new Windmill Technique at two places as a pilot project in the state for cleaning of the ponds,” said the state Rural Development and Panchayat and Water Supply and Sanitation Minister Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa.
He said that the state government was making sincere efforts to preserve and clean the ponds, and the decision was taken in consultation with the Department’s officers and technical experts. Bajwa said that after the success of pilot projects, the final decision would be taken for using this technique for cleaning ponds across the state. “As per pilot projects, one of these two projects would be planted on a pond where already sewage treatment plant is installed and second where dirty water is directly going into the pond,” he said.
Giving a detailed presentation about the Windmill Technique of cleaning ponds, Nature’s Care Company president Doug Hicks said that the technique is being launched for the first time in India, and water would be cleaned in 90 days.
He said the process of cleaning the water will continue without spending any money on electricity. He also claimed that fish farming could also be done in these ponds as water would be regularly cleaned.